How to format your references using the Journal of Wood Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Wood Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Gates BD (2009) Materials science. Flexible electronics. Science 323:1566–1567

A journal article with 2 authors

Ron D, Ito K (2011) Cell biology. A translational pause to localize. Science 331:543–544

A journal article with 3 authors

Hosseini P, Wright CD, Bhaskaran H (2014) An optoelectronic framework enabled by low-dimensional phase-change films. Nature 511:206–211

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mukhopadhyay S, Kim B-S, Chipman PR, et al (2003) Structure of West Nile virus. Science 302:248

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Cowan JP (2016) The Effects of Sound on People. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Nerem RM, Loring J, McDevitt TC, et al (2014) Stem Cell Engineering: A WTEC Global Assessment. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Massone C, Nunzi E (2012) Pathogenesis. In: Nunzi E, Massone C (eds) Leprosy: A Practical Guide. Springer, Milano, pp 39–42

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Wood Science.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) South Pacific Islanders Probably Used Volcanic Glass To Make Tattoos 3,000 Years Ago. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/south-pacific-islanders-probably-used-volcanic-glass-to-make-tattoos-3000-years-ago/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2016) Federal Research Grants: Opportunities Remain for Agencies to Streamline Administrative Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Accortt EE (2009) Frontal alpha electroencephalography (EEG) asymmetry as a risk factor for pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD); a psychophysiological and family history approach. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kelly M (1993) Hillary Clinton Visits Capitol In Vivid Display of Her Clout. New York Times A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Wood Science
Abbreviation	J. Wood Sci.
ISSN (print)	1435-0211
ISSN (online)	1611-4663
Scope	Biomaterials